That doesn't follow to me from that wording, Nathan. The English Wikipedia for example allows socking to enable contributors to contribute to articles that they would rather not have their real-life name or normal Internet persona associated with.
User:John Smith is allowed to create an account named User:ColourfulCharacter to edit those articles. In doing so, he is not using "the username *of another user* with the intent to deceive". There is no other user of that name. (The only exception would be if there were a user called User:ColorfulCharacter, say, and Smith's intent was to create confusion between the two accounts.) User:John Smith is using a secondary screen name to obscure the fact that both accounts are operated by the same person. And that is allowed. I don't even see that Wiki-PR infringed the letter of that section, as a normal person would read it. Just like John Smith, they did not use the name of some other user. They created multiple accounts. There was no other user whose username they used, or whom they tried to impersonate. On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Nathan, > > > > I am unable to find a mention of sockpuppetry in the Terms of Use, > whether > > in Section 4 or elsewhere. > > > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use > > > > I don't think there could be such a mention, really, given that project > > policies recognise a number of legitimate uses of socks. > > > > A. > > > > > The term isn't used, but the behavior is clearly encompassed by the > prohibition described in the "Engaging in False Statements, Impersonation > or Fraud" - specifically "using the username of another user with the > intent to deceive." > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
